A/RES/60/102. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2005

• Resolution Number: A/RES/60/102
• Year: 2005
• Session: 60th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/60/102

General Assembly Distr.: General

16 January 2006

Sixtieth session

Agenda item 30

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2005

[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee

(Fourth Committee) (A/60/476)]

60/102. Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works

Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolutions 194 (III) of 11 December 1948, 212 (III) of

19 November 1948, 302 (IV) of 8 December 1949 and all subsequent related

resolutions, including its resolution 59/119 of 10 December 2004,

Recalling also

the relevant Security Council resolutions,

Having considered

the report of the Commissioner-General of the United

Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East covering

the period from 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005,

1

Taking note

of the letter dated 26 September 2005 from the Chairperson of the

Advisory Commission of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine

Refugees in the Near East addressed to the Commissioner-General,

2

Deeply concerned

about the critical financial situation of the Agency and its

effect on the provision of necessary Agency services to the Palestine refugees,

including its emergency-related and development programmes,

Recalling

Articles 100, 104 and 105 of the Charter of the United Nations and

the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations,

3

Recalling also

the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated

Personnel,

4

Affirming

the applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection

of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949,

5

to the Palestinian territory

occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem,

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1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/60/13); and ibid.,

Supplement No. 13A (A/60/13/Add.1).

2 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/60/13), p. vii.

3 Resolution 22 A (I).

4 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2051, No. 35457.

5 Ibid., vol. 75, No. 973.